Ali Sawafta
By Ali Sawafta
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Fast Forward Fear and Loathing Grips Jerusalem’s Old City
A month ago, you couldn’t get a table in Abu Shukri’s hummus restaurant. Tucked in a backstreet of the Old City, off the Via Dolorosa, the place has long been regarded as the best hummus joint in the Holy Land. But on Oct. 2, yards from Abu Shukri’s front door, a Palestinian law student stabbed…
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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas Calls Israel ‘Gangster’ State as Palestinians Rethink Security Ties
(Reuters) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of “gangsterism” on Wednesday over its decision to withhold the transfer of more than $100 million a month in tax revenues it collects on the Palestinians’ behalf. Opening a two-day meeting of senior Palestinian officials, when overall ties with Israel and the possibility of suspending security coordination…
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Fast Forward Palestinian ‘Revenge’ Attack Victim Was Burnt Alive, Autopsy Shows
(Reuters) — Initial autopsy findings from the body of an East Jerusalem youth who Palestinians believe was kidnapped and killed by far-right Jews showed that he was burned alive, the Palestinian attorney-general is reported as saying. “The direct cause of death was burns as a result of fire and it’s complications,” Mohammed Al-A’wewy was quoted…
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